The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Published by PennDesign Alumni Association (PDAA)
Volume 9, Number 1
September 2008
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The alumni newsline for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design |
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MARGULIES PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT |
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Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection |
| Don't miss these 56 works from the Margulies Collection in Miami, Florida, many of which have rarely been exhibited.
PennDesign photography students were an integral part of the curation of this exhibition; the selections pulled from the
Margulies Collection were based on photographers chosen by undergraduate seniors and 2nd-year MFA students. Above: William Eggleston; Untitled (Diner Couple in Car at Drive-in Restaurant), Memphis, TN, 1965–68 © Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy Cheim & Read, New York |
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| VIA OCCUPATION LAUNCH | |
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via, publisher to books edited, designed and marketed by PennDesign graduate students, launches Occupation this month at dual events in Philadelphia and New York. Copies will be available for purchase at a discount. via Occupation, the 191-page full-color volume, investigates the macro- and micro-scales that inform how we read, claim, and intervene in our evolving territories. This volume is also the 2008 recipient of the AIA-NY and Center for Architecture Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journalism. Philadelphia Launch Thursday, Sept 18, 7pm Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th St. New York Launch Friday, Sept 19, 6pm Hines Gallery, Center for Architecture, 534 LaGuardia Pl. |
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ALUMNI RECEPTIONS AT ASLA AND NTHP |
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See fellow alumni and PennDesign faculty at the national landscape and preservation conferences this fall! |
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| ASLA-Philadelphia, Fri, Oct 3, 6:30-8:30pm Philadelphia Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. PennDesign Alumni Reception RSVP online now or see the website for details. |
NTHP-Tulsa, OK, Thurs, Oct 23, 7:30-9:30pm Lola's at the Bowery, 61 Exeter St. PennDesign Alumni Happy Hour RSVP online now or see the website for details. |
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| DESIGN PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 16-22 | |
| DesignPhiladelphia, the largest annual celebration of design in the U.S., is coming this October as part of National Design Week. Support PennDesign and Penn Integrated Product Design students and faculty in their participation of these vibrant design events! PRODUCT DESIGN: SURPRISEUTILITY University of Pennsylvania Student Exhibit: Integrated Product Design PennDesign lecturers Josh Owen and Bryce Gibson 222 Gallery, 222 Vine St Exhibit: October 17 - November 1; Reception: October 17, 7-10pm SOS STOOL PennDesign lecturer Josh Owen Design Within Reach, 1710 Walnut St Reception: October 16, 4-7pm; Lecture: October 16, 6pm PHILLY (HEART) DESIGN co-curated/co-organized by PennDesign lecturer Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St Exhibit: October 16-22; Reception: October 18, 8pm |
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URBAN DESIGN 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 7-8 |
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| The ground-breaking symposium, Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design after the Age of Oil, co-sponsored by PennDesign, Penn Institute for Urban Research and The Rockefeller Foundation, celebrates the anniversary of the 1958 University of Pennsylvania/Rockefeller Foundation "Conference on Urban Design Criticism." The historic conference, whose participants included Jane Jacobs, Louis Kahn, Kevin Lynch, Ian McHarg, Lewis Mumford, and IM Pei, helped shape the new field of urban design in the 20th Century. This fall's anniversary conference will explore new directions for 21st Century urban design.
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Please note: some alumni names are hyperlinked to email addresses |
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Lorlene Hoyt MA'99 PhD'01 |
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Tabitha Morris MFA'05 had her first solo show this summer at The Happy Lion in Los Angeles, CA. In Predacious Panopticon, meticulously rendered watercolors, Morris explores a world where humans and nature are inexplicably linked in a danse macabre. The large scale works form a panorama in which epic narrative unfolds as carnivorous plants and their female targets languish and in a world rife with beauty and decay. Meadow is pictured at left. Linnea Paskow MFA'02 and Michael Perrone MFA'04 will show their work at Michael Steinberg Fine Art Gallery in New York City, 526 W. 26th St, 2nd Floor. Opening reception is September 19, 6-8pm; the exhibition is on view through October 25. Alexis Serio MFA'00 will show her work this month in her fourth solo show, Stillness, at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia. There is a First Friday reception, September 5, 6-8:30pm, and the exhibition is on view through September 27. Serio is an assistant professor of art at the University of Texas at Tyler. |
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Leslie R. White Siek MLA'04 is married to a wonderful German economist. They are the proud parents of Tristram Michael Siek, born April 2006. She is at home with Tristram (he is teaching her how to design, of course), but she is looking forward to getting back into the professional game before too long. Cheers to all! Sabra Smith MS'07 joined the staff of the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia as the new advocacy associate. Previously, Ms. Smith worked as an historian in the Preservation Assistance office of the National Park Service with an emphasis on National Historic Landmarks. Brian Zegeer MFA'05 had an installation this summer at CitySol Festival 2008, a music festival promoting solar power and green building. Vanishing Ridges, pictured at left, is a sculptural installation that unites two of the more alarming developmental trends affecting the Appalachian South: mountaintop removal coal mining, and the spread of luxury rural suburbs (“ruburbs”) that capitalize on their distance from urban centers as a population draw. |
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Rachel Levitt MArch'99 |
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| Chris Reed MLA'95 announces that his firm Stoss in Boston, MA was named a finalist in the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, Landscape Design category. Stoss is currently collaborating with Renzo Piano Building Workshop on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum addition in Boston, and on the River Square Neighborhood in Toronto, Canada, with Saucier + Perrotte Architects and ZAS Architects. |
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| Elise Vider MS'91 was named deputy director of Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. This is a new staff position created to strengthen senior management leadership of the Alliance; in her previous position, she served for eight years as director of communications at the Center City District. She was also a member of the Alliance’s board of directors and is a co-founder of the Design Advocacy Group (DAG). |
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Lanshing Hwang MLA'86 designed the Sharing garden, selected as one the the finalist gardens for 2008 International Garden Festival in Chaumont-Sur-Loire, France. The garden was featured by the Architectural Review, August issue, as the "Avant-Gardeners in Chaumont." Jean Sausele Knodt MFA'84 recently wrote a book on making the most of children's inquisitiveness. Nine Thousand Straws: Teaching Thinking Through Open Inquiry Learning is based on nine years of design, research, and open-inquiry lab teaching experience with over 600 children annually, and offers practical methods and concrete guidance that enable educators and other specialists to open, employ, and guide this energy towards developing productive and globally applicable thinking skills and dispositions. |
| Sarah McCoubrey C'79 MFA'81 associate professor of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, is exhibiting her work in two group shows. Global Suburbia, on view through November 30 at the Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, features art inspired by the suburbs of London, Bangkok, Barcelona, and Normandy, next to art inspired by Austin, Phoenix, New Jersey, New York, and California suburbs. Specificities of Place is on view through Sept. 28 at the Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY. |
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| Lucinda Sanders MLA'89 adjunct associate professor of Landscape Architecture and partner of Olin Partnership, recently celebrated the opening of the Comcast Center Plaza for which she was principal-in-charge. The plaza over structure is more than a suitable platform for the building — it is a vibrant, well-used, civic space, wholly connected to the City of Philadelphia. It serves as a new destination for residents and workers, and as the primary entry to the regional rail lines, markets, and food court located beneath the site. “For a long time, the words urban plaza seemed to be code for barren wasteland. But here, the open space provides the huge tower with some breathing room and creates a gentle, dignified entry.” Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Susan Weiler MLA'83 |
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Robin Beckett MCP'75 |
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| Elissa Gore CW'73 MFA'74 participated in several shows upstate New York this summer, including Closer Look 2 at the Red Eft Gallery in Wurtsboro, Fourth Annual Plein-Air Event in at Wyndham Fine Arts in Wyndham, and Elissa Gore Robert Schneider in Smithy Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown. She also showed in The Art of Seeing at the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City. Tamara Krendel BFA'77 MFA'79, Liz Awalt MFA'81 and Anne Oldach BFA'78 MFA'79 are currently showing their work at the Concord Art Association in Concord, MA. Order Insectia, an exhibition curated by Krendel, was reviewed in the Boston Globe. Pictured at right is Krendel's Monarch Unfolding. Abby Suckle CW'72 was selected to participate on a panel for Harvard Divinity School’s Alumni/ae Day celebration this past June. She is principal of Abby Suckle Architects, established in 2004. The firm is a member of the US Green Buildings Council and is a certified Women Business Enterprise in both New York City and New York State. In addition to helming the firm, Suckle is also spearheading a public art map of Manhattan and is the president of a non-profit organization, cultureNOW. |
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| Stephen Kieran MArch'76 and James Timberlake MArch'77 of KieranTimberlake Associates in Philadelphia, were commissioned to design an off-site fabricated home for The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Cellophane House, a five-story, full scale prototype, is on view at MoMA through October 26. Kieran and Timberlake’s latest book, Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture, published by Princeton Architectural Press, is now available. The book is a case study of a single building which inaugurates a new, more efficient way of constructing offsite through the use of building information modeling and integrated component assemblies. |
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| Robinson Fredenthal MArch'63 The Inglis Foundation, a non-profit provider of programs and services for adults with physical disabilities, received a $5,000 grant from the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation to produce a film about acclaimed sculptor and Inglis House resident Robinson Fredenthal. The documentary will be written, produced and directed by Inglis House residents. An Inglis House resident since 2003, Fredenthal turned from architecture to sculpture after developing Parkinson’s disease, which hindered his ability to draw. |
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| Alvin Holm MArch'62 received the Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition, Board of Directors' Honor, from The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America. The award was established in 1981 by Arthur Ross and Henry Hope Reed, and this year's ceremony took place in May at The University Club in New York City. |
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